Kid Thomas Valentine's band performs "Tiger Rag" at Preservation Hall on May
17, 1982, shot by Alan Lomax, the great collector of 20th century American
folk music, and his crew. Kid Thomas' career as a New Orleans band leader
lasted some six decades, from the 1920s to the 1...
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WWOZ's Marc Stone pays tribute to his mentor Eddie Bo by covering the 1960
cut "Every Dog Got His Day" at the 2014 Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival.
Catch him on 'OZ on "The Soul Serenade with Marc Stone" on Tuesdays from 2-4p
at 90.7FM and wwoz.org.
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Team WWOZ flourished in the Fall Classic 5K on Saturday, November 8! We
gathered 37 entrants, the third most among non-profit organizations, and won
$750 from the Crescent City Fitness Foundation and its program of support to
both Schools and Non-Profits.
We had the part...
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Num.
Title
Artist
Time
Release
Start Time
1
The Terror
The Sorcerers
03:56
Funk, Soul and Afro Rarities: An Introduction to ATA Records
2014/11/14 22:02:32
2
All That You Have Is Your Soul
Tracy Chapman
05:16
Crossroa...
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New Orleans has a long and storied history of female musicians. One of the
relatively recent additions to the city's current fantastic female jazz
vocalist lineup, Sarah Peterson of the Smoking Time Jazz Club, sat down to
chat about what it was like for her first coming to ...
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"Queen Clarinet" Doreen Ketchens, Lawrence Ketchens and Paul Kemnitz perform
a 20+ minute set of three songs at WWOZ during the Fall 2014 Membership
Drive.
The songs are:
"This Train"
"The House of the Rising Sun" - starts at 5:18
"Cabaret" - starts at 14:36
This set was ...
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Mia Borders, pictured above in the WWOZ studio last week as part of our Fall
Membership Drive, reinvents Justin Timberlake's 2002 song "Cry Me a River."
This is the first installment of her "15 Week Challenge, Part II": every
Friday, she'll post a new video of her take on a...
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As Bobby Rush mentions in the opening of the video below, today (Novemember
10, 2014) is his 81st birthday. The video was recorded in HD with broadcast
quality audio by WWOZ at the 2014 Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival.
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Left-handed R&B guitarist Barbara Lynn recorded this song, her first, at
Cosimo Matassa's French Quarter studio in 1962 with session musicians
including one Mac Rebennack. It went to #1 on the R&B charts and hit the top
10 of the Billboard Hot 100.
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